Explosions Quotes

“It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.”
― Rick Riordan

“She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls.
“How does that thing even work?” Percy asked.
“No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.”
“That’s reassuring.”
“It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.”
“You’re kidding, I hope.”
She smiled. “Come on.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?”
― Meg Cabot, When Lightning Strikes

“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it?
I quit, I'm done?
Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment
of what's out there.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“Okeydokey,” I said to myself. “Provisions, check. Clothes, check. Enough explosives to pose a legitimate threat to multiple small countries-“ I eyed the duffel bags that Gazzy and Iggy had packed- “check.”
― James Patterson

“We are the fluid gyrations of birthing stars, beautiful explosions in motion coruscating with all the love that we brought from the outer edges of the cosmos, and it whirls wildly, madly, in the centre of our beings...”
― Mona Soorma, You Make Me Spill My Ink

“Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

“Spark back. Fire up. Ignite the world. You are made for breathtaking illumination.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Alex would make a terrible Martian,' said Sarah. 'He doesn’t have a giant laser and he’s not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom.”
― Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok

“Krakatoa, spelled “Krakatau” in Indonesian, is a volcano in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. It is also the name of an island group made up of what is left of a larger island, consisting of three volcanic peaks that were destroyed by the catastrophic 1883 eruption. This explosive force was equivalent to 100,000 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs. It was the loudest sound ever heard in modern history and could be heard up to 3,000 miles away. At that time, the explosion caused huge tsunamis which killed more than 36,000 people and sent out shock waves that were recorded worldwide for almost a week. Years later in 1927, “Anak Krakatau” a new island mountain formed in its place and is again the location of volcanic activity. It is considered a part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
― Captain Hank Bracker

“Since almost all of the men were on active duty with the military, very few were available to serve with the Home Guard or as Air Raid Wardens. There were absolutely none assigned to our section, so we had to check our own homes for any unexploded incendiary bombs. Conditions were frightful and complaining didn’t help. Being on the verge of having a nervous breakdown, one of the women in our building cried incessantly. All of us tried to comfort and help her, but we had our own problems and could do precious little to calm her.
Suddenly huge shattering explosions changed everything! Three bombs fell very close by. They exploded on our side of the street, causing our entire house to be shaken to its very foundation. The explosions were so severe that we thought the window casings would burst, causing the roof to cave in! When the “All Clear” sounded, we dug our way out and discovered that the bombs had hit the three houses right next to ours.”
― Captain Hank, "Suppressed I Rise"

“Not all gunpowder is for killing. I have a friend who makes the most amazing fireworks. And who---a little you--- spends all her time trying to launch things higher and higher into the air...”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“You do not want to be photographed when you are engaging in fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“Shell shock victims tend to go crazy in their fifties.”
― Steven Magee

“It is not unlikely that they [goblins] invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and engines explosions always delighted them, and also not working with their own hands more than they could help; but in those days and those wild parts they had not advanced (as it is called) so far.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I never really understood who was actually buying them or how, but on the Fourth, the amount of explosions was absurd—and safety was not a priority. I’d find myself in the middle of it all, sh- exploding all around me, begging friends to break me off a couple firecrackers.”
― Aesop Rock

“What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“There are two things which are undeniably cool: walking away from explosions without looking back and turning up late to parties.”
― Frances White